WZor.Net, referring to Microsoft partners, announces that Microsoft has finally compiled RTM build of Internet Explorer 8 which is 8.0.6001.18691. RTM was compiled for all the platforms and languages. The build was already released to selected partners.

WZor says his release both of english and russian Internet Explorer 8 bits is coming soon.

The size of an animated gif I have is too large to be uploaded here, so I scaled it and it resulted in loss of animation.

Some news from WZor. He says the leak is delayed a bit since in Microsoft suddenly appeared some doubts about the RTM and he doesn't want to release a build which potentially may not be a final release. In other words, there still be not internal announce about RTM and Microsoft can bring some changes. Anyway, the situation should clear up in upcoming days.

XP has had its run. Though they should give wmp 12 for it as I know that is what most people would like well xp users anyway.

I'm not crossing over until Seven gets RTM'd, thank you very much.XP and 2000 may have very well have been the best operating systems that I was ever running. (They are certainly better than Windows NT 3.1 and the horrors it has inflicted upon me.)

XP has had its run. Though they should give wmp 12 for it as I know that is what most people would like well xp users anyway.

I'm not crossing over until Seven gets RTM'd, thank you very much.XP and 2000 may have very well have been the best operating systems that I was ever running. (They are certainly better than Windows NT 3.1 and the horrors it has inflicted upon me.)

Well yeah, but I mean like, why not upgrade to Vista if you want to use IE8? If you have a modern computer, it's really not bad in the slightest. (and by modern, I mean Pentium 4 Prescott and above, nothing crazy).

A little update from WZor posted yesterday. The reason they don't release IE8 is that Microsoft haven't confirmed yet what the build will be released as RTM. Currently for partners available number of builds in multiple languages, but no one is confirmed by Microsoft to be RTM. On March, 11 the last compiled build was